Courage is a related term of enterprise.
As nouns the difference between courage and enterprise
is that
courage is courage while
enterprise is a company, business, organization, or other purposeful endeavor.
As a verb enterprise is
to undertake an enterprise, or something hazardous or difficult.
Other Comparisons: What's the difference?
courage English
Noun
( -)
The quality of a confident character not to be afraid or intimidated easily but without being incautious or inconsiderate.
- "A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before." —
- It takes a lot of courage to be successful in business.
The ability to do things which one finds frightening.
- "Courage is not the absence of fear. It is acting in spite of it." —
- He plucked up the courage to tell her how he felt.
Synonyms
* See also
Derived terms
* courageous
* discourage
* encourage
Related terms
* cardiac
Verb
(courag)
(label) To encourage.
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*:And wete yow wel sayd kynge Arthur vnto Vrres syster I shalle begynne to handle hym and serche vnto my power not presumyng vpon me that I am soo worthy to hele youre sone by my dedes / but I wille courage other men of worshyp to doo as I wylle doo
*(William Tyndale) (1494-1536)
*:Paul writeth unto Timothyto courage him.
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enterprise Alternative forms
* enterprize (chiefly archaic)
* entreprise (chiefly archaic)
Noun
( en noun)
A company, business, organization, or other purposeful endeavor.
- The (GSEs) are a group of financial services corporations which have been created by the United States Congress.
- A micro-enterprise is defined as a business having 5 or fewer employees and a low seed capital.
An undertaking or project, especially a daring and courageous one.
- Biosphere 2 was a scientific enterprise aimed at the exploration of the complex web of interactions within life systems.
A willingness to undertake new or risky projects; energy and initiative.
- He has shown great enterprise throughout his early career.
an active participation in projects
Synonyms
* initiative
Derived terms
* enterprising
* commercial enterprise
* scientific enterprise
Verb
( enterpris)
To undertake an enterprise, or something hazardous or difficult.
- (Alexander Pope)
To undertake; to begin and attempt to perform; to venture upon.
* Dryden
- The business must be enterprised this night.
* T. Otway
- What would I not renounce or enterprise for you!
To treat with hospitality; to entertain.
* Spenser
- Him at the threshold met, and well did enterprise .
( Webster 1913)
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